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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Nov 27, 2010 9:58pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Road Trips Volume Redux |
Q: If I purchase the Road Trips 2011 subscription, would I be able to return it for a refund?
A: Purchase of this subscription is non-refundable. We apologize for the inconvenience.
I can't figure out how this would work. Are they going to announce the themes/shows for all the 2011 releases in advance or do you have to pay for them blind? Given how random the volumes have been since Vol. 1, I can't imagine putting my faith in rhino/GDP to come up with 4 consecutive releases that i would be willing to buy. I have averaged about 2 purchases for each RT volume so the odds are not good. However my fear is that the bonus disc is going to be a "must have" and suck me in.
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Poster: | snow_and_rain | Date: | Nov 28, 2010 8:41am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
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Poster: | Dudley Dead | Date: | Nov 28, 2010 8:30am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Nov 28, 2010 10:37am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
Like Micah, i have been somewhat perplexed by many of the market strategies of Rhino/GDP. No digital versions of any of their releases (except the shows that were the bulk of the RT1-1 release, about 6 months after RT1-1 came out)? You can get 180 gram vinyl of old studio releases but no mp3s or FLAC of new releases?. How does this make sense unless you think the only people who listen to the Grateful Dead are high fidelity audiophiles? How do you grow your audience if you don't use the current medium of choice for most music listeners? I think part of the answer is in your comment about the music industry. The profit margin on mp3s is much worse than on CDs from what i have been told.
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Poster: | Dudley Dead | Date: | Nov 28, 2010 10:59am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
I wonder if they have been stung with their "official download series," note they don't seem to be doing that .anymore . I agree that they are not going after the digital arena in any apparently organized, sane fashion . I suspect there is that "deer in the headlights" reaction , of "what do we do ?" . It may well be that the downloads just don't make enough money to pay the bills . Since we don't know the financial scuttlebutt , It is hard to make conclusions, but suspect, no one is getting rich off all this .
I am sure they are still wary of putting out their new product as a download , and having it spread across the net for free , but "it is what it is" , you have to make it easy , and lose something, or risk making nothing .
One idea ( audio snob here) would be to sell 24 bit downloads , as an option , along with the 16bit flac, and the mp3s , but I think just keeping things going is their priority .
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Nov 29, 2010 3:39am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
http://store.dead.net/new/road-trips-2011-subscription?eml=dn/112910/rtsubs
Only positive i see out of this is that they are basically telling us that at $25 a pop, all of the 2011 Road Trips will be 3 Disc sets.
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Poster: | Dudley Dead | Date: | Nov 29, 2010 7:19am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
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Poster: | Arck | Date: | Nov 29, 2010 5:03am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
1. Standard - $180.11
2. Rush - $108.51
So postage costs more than the CDs? Nice.
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Nov 29, 2010 6:03am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
Standard: Free
Rush: $20.05
Overnight: $39.24
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Poster: | Arck | Date: | Nov 29, 2010 7:03am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
Usually there are so many complaints that the costs are lowered (somewhat). I had a look at the vinyl boxset a while ago and the postage for that was around $60 or 70.
Obviously the postage issue is one of several with this "subscription" thing. Who's going to commit to buying something unidentified? If they announce the releases (which I can't see happening) then it makes a little more sense. However if they don't reduce the postage costs by a lot, they're going to have to include original master tapes or one of Garcia's guitars as a bonus to tempt me to order.
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Nov 29, 2010 7:20am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
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Poster: | Arck | Date: | Nov 29, 2010 12:59pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
Essentially this subscription would cost me 50 dollars per Road Trip. I'm not sure if they think no one outside the US is capable of simple mathematics or what...
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Nov 29, 2010 1:18pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
I just don't get making it so difficult for people in other parts of the world to buy this stuff. It is basically begging for international deadheads to go to blogs and download free copies. Wouldn't it make more sense to sell these releases in a form where it doesn't matter where you live? I heard somewhere that the internet can be used in such a manner for the transfer of digital files. Seems like pretty simple addition. You know like 1+1=3.
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Poster: | cousinkix1953 | Date: | Nov 28, 2010 12:42am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Nov 28, 2010 6:23am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Road Trips Volume Redux |